Kingston KC600 SSD 1024GB SATA3 mSATA – SKC600MS/1024G
Kingston KC600 SSD 1024GB SATA3 mSATA – SKC600MS/1024G
Remarkable performance
Using the latest 3D TLC NAND technology, it enables read/write speeds of up to 550/520MB/s.¹
Full-security suite
Protect and secure your data with Kingston’s self-encrypting drive.
Easy installation/upgrade
KC600 is available in an upgrade bundle kit that has everything you need to install your drive easily.
Multiple capacities
KC600 is available in a range of full capacities from 256GB to 2TB.²
- Based on “out-of-box performance” using a SATA Rev 3.0 motherboard. Speed may vary due to host hardware, software and usage. IOMETER random 4K read/write is based on 8GB partition.
- Some of the listed capacity on a Flash storage device is used for formatting and other functions and is thus not available for data storage. As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products
| Weight: | 7 g |
| Dimensions: | 5.08 x 2.98 x 0.48 cm; 7 Grams |
| Brand: | Kingston |
| Model: | SKC600MS/1024G |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Kingston |
| Dimensions: | 5.08 x 2.98 x 0.48 cm; 7 Grams |
Looked at several different SSDs, but decided on this one because I always had good luck with Kingston products and the price was really good. It’s been in a automobile scanner with Windows 10 for over 3 months now with no problems. Cloned my old SSD put it on this one with alot more storage space. I’m totally satisfied.
Scarichi il programma dal sito indicato, usi la PW contenuta nella confezione, inserisci il disco SSD nella custodia fornita e lo colleghi alla USB del computer, lanci il proogramma di clonazione, quando finito stacchi il disco SSD dalla custodia e lo monti in uno slot libero del desktop (nel mio caso avevo questo PC) usando la staffa a corredo se hai solo slot grandi disponibili. Accendi il PC e hai guadagnato almeno il doppio se non di pi in termini di prestazioni finali. E’ tutto nella confezione tranne il cacciavite che devi metterlo tu. Ti avanza la custodia portatile con il cavo, quindi se lo hai usato per un notebook rimonti nella custodia il vecchio hard disk e cos hai un disco esterno per fare dei backup. 20 minuti di lavoro al massimo + il tempo necessario a clonare il disco (dipende dalla velocit del vecchio disco e dalle dimensioni della copia (nel mio caso 40 minuti).
Lo compre para mi laptop ASUS, la cual tenia problemas con el disco duro. Al cambiarlo la computadora quedo funcionando en ptimas condiciones. Sin duda recomiendo este SSD ya sea para tu laptop o desktop.
Solo puedo juzgar la atencin post venta, el que cumplan con los plazos de entrega y reembolsen el dinero cuando pides el reembolso sin preguntar los motivos. He quedado muy satisfecho con el trato recibido por esta empresa y no dudara en comprar sus productos. Debido a que el responsable de que no pudiese instalarlo es mi obsoleto Vaio, creo que lo ms correcto es darles una puntuacin que no arruine su promedio, por lo dems, siempre me han gustado los productos Kingston.
Having been in technical support for many years, I knew Kingston was a exceptional brand and my thoughts have been confirmed. Due to space issues on my C drive, this upgrade was greatly needed. Not having any free power ports on my system board, I used the CD drive and power cables to access the new drive. The cloning process was straight forward and pretty quick. There was one slight issue with partitioning of the C drive following the cloning to take advantage of all the new space but a Kingston tech support agent walked me through the resolution and it worked perfect. Kudos to an awesome product and awesome tech support staff!
The SSD sped up my boot time from 22 seconds to under 10 seconds which is amazing, files load instantly programs run better this is positively the best SSD i have owned so far.
L’unit molto facile da installare grazie al formato mSATA, che la rende compatibile con molte schede madri e dispositivi portatili. Inoltre, la capacit di archiviazione di 512GB pi che sufficiente per le mie esigenze quotidiane.
La velocit di lettura e scrittura dell’unit impressionante, garantendo tempi di avvio rapidi e un accesso rapido ai dati. In particolare, ho notato un notevole aumento delle prestazioni del mio sistema operativo, che sembra molto pi reattivo e fluido rispetto all’unit HDD che avevo prima.
La qualit costruttiva dell’unit eccellente, con un involucro resistente e robusto che protegge il dispositivo da eventuali urti o danni. Inoltre, il dispositivo dotato di un sistema di gestione termica avanzato che previene il surriscaldamento dell’unit, garantendo una maggiore durata nel tempo.
In definitiva, consiglio vivamente questa unit SSD per chiunque abbia bisogno di aumentare le prestazioni del proprio sistema e desideri un dispositivo di archiviazione affidabile e resistente.
I had problems copying my W7 O/S.
I bought this SSD, an IDE adapter case (to fit into my old Acer Aspire) and an IDE-USB adapter cable.
The O/S wouldn’t transfer because of a bit rate transfer issue, caused by the IDE-USB cable. Because my laptop is real old i had only one way to make this work:
I used Macruim Reflect 8 freeware.
1. Create a Macrium Rescue USB or CD.
2. Run Macrium and create an Image of your O/S or partition you want to copy, and copy onto a 3rd drive.
3. Then swap the SSD for the old IDE or whatever HDD.
4. Boot your PC from the Macrium Rescue USB/CD you created. Connect the 3rd drive.
5. Show Macrium where the Image is on the 3rd drive, then tick the SSD drive you want to copy it to.
If you get stuck, this should work for you.
Review:
1. I couldn’t find a Kingston IDE adapter case!!? They sell the SSDs, they sell SATA SSDs but no IDE adapter cases? I had to buy one from 3rd party!
2. This SSD on it’s own, without case, is twice the price of SATA SSD for half the memory capacity. Why? 512gb SATA is 25 atm.
3. Boot times gone from 150secs to 30secs.! And the old HHD only had 1.5gig of space left which isn’t a problem anymore. The whole PC is running much faster.
4. The Microsoft windows experience score for my IDE HDD was 4.6. The SSD score is 6.4.
I’m very happy with this SSD, i always buy Kingston storage. Would recommend.
Can’t understand the price difference though..
Achei a entrega bem rpida quem est com medo de comprar o produto por achar que no e original ou algo do tipo, pode ir sem medo nica coisa que me ocorreu foi que o produto veio sem a nota, mais isso no foi problema o vendedor me respondeu educadamente e me enviou a nota sem problema algum nota 10 para atendimento e 10 pelo produto que uma bala.
This was a good deal for a good product but it’s been just over a year and it stopped being picked up by my computer as easily. Had to take it out and reinstall it multiple times before it became visible again, and it’s still temperamental. What to do, seller?
Easy to install and cloned original drive using software from Web. Bought at the right price as when looking to reorder price had gone up 50.
Worked the first time out of the pack.
Tried a few other manufacturers and had loads of issues with the drive not being recognised.
Upgrade perfetto per DELL Latitude E7240 (per altri computer, consultare il supporto tecnico del produttore prima dell’acquisto)
Installazione facilissima su DELL Latitude E7240 : si rimuove la batteria, 2 viti, e si fa scorrere il coperchio del retro del portatile per accedere alla scheda madre. Quindi si rimuovono le 2 viti sulla vecchia memoria per poterla rimuovere, ed installare quella nuova
Su DELL Latitude E7240 si pu montare anche come seconda memoria!!! Si inserisce nello slot dedicato sul lato opposto ( necessaria per una vite piccola per fissarlo, non in dotazione)
Velocissimo: prestazioni elevate anche su portatili di vecchia generazione
Non scalda e non consuma batteria come i dischi meccanici
Rapporto qualit/prezzo conveniente
CONTRO
E’ una memoria elettronica: in caso di rottura, per recuperare i dati sar necessario rivolgersi ad un centro specializzato (al costo di diverse centinaia di euro). Non ci sono comunque alternative se il proprio portatile dotato solo di questo dispositivo di memorizzazione. Su computer dotati di hard disk tradizionali, invece, in genere sintomi quali rallentamenti, blocchi, o piccoli rumori possono consentire di salvare i propri dati per tempo, se si sanno interpretare correttamente questi segnali
CONSIGLI UTILI
Verificare periodicamente lo stato di salute della memoria con il software HDSentinel (al 24/07/2022 gratuito per un periodo di prova, poi a pagamento per una cifra modesta)
CONSIDERAZIONI FINALI
Espansione di memoria (disco fisso) per portatili, installata con facilit su DELL E7240. Qualit delle memorie Kingston indiscussa. Disponibile anche in altri formati. Consigliatissimo!
In caso di dubbi sul prodotto, possibile formulare una domanda alla community attraverso la sezione “Domande e risposte dei clienti” della pagina prodotto Amazon: il venditore, o un recensore di buona volont, risponderanno appena possibile
Ho dedicato del tempo per condividere la mia esperienza con questo prodotto, a beneficio di tutti: spero di essere stato utile!
This is an excellent SSD. I used it to upgrade an old ACER Aspire E1-571. Greatly improved the performance of this old machine.
Take some care as to whether you need the whole kit to clone your old hard drive. Otherwise you might waste some money as I did. Since the drive I was replacing had unrecoverable boot sectors, cloning it was not practical. After backing up the old drive’s files, I simply installed a new system on the new drive and copied my old backups onto the new drive. I could have thus saved money by just buying the drive. To boot, I have seen a number of postings of people having trouble with the cloning process.
In hindsight, the ability of cloning your old drive onto your new drive appears to be of limited utility as long as you have good backups and know how to restore them.
Yes, I know mSATA is smaller and slower but figured it would not only be faster than my existing HDD but also potentially work as a boot drive so I could have my entire SSD as a data drive, or as a backup volume for things small enough to be copied locally. In any event it’s cheap enough that if I didn’t like the speed boost I got I’d know to explore a new computer rather than dropping more $$$ on improving the one I have.
Having never seen an mSATA drive before it was remarkably small. Installing it was trivially easy – I first installed it into a USB enclosure and cloned my boot volume onto it, then fitted it into my laptop. It took longer to get the back off my laptop than it did to fit the drive – it’s literally a case of plugging it in, pushing it into place and securing it with a screw.
It works a lot faster than my old HDD, which is nice. It gives me a larger boot volume than I had before, which is also nice (you can get this thing in a range of sizes, I went for 512GB and configured it as a 256GB boot volume, a 200GB encrypted data partition, and the rest as swap space.
The only real downside of it is that it seems to get quite hot. The Kingston software that manages their SSDs reports it running at about 25C as soon as it’s fired up and it warms to around 50C (122F) after a fairly short time even when it’s not used hard. When I generated a 200GB encrypted volume on it and copied some files into the encrypted volume the software reported it reached 68C. My laptop has pretty good fans in it, and this feels like the sort of temperature that’s not necessarily a good thing. So far it hasn’t affected the performance but I’ve only run it for about 25 hours in total so far.
From the top of the laptop there’s no obvious evidence of anything spectactularly warm, and I haven’t gone as far as running it with the back off and checking the temperature with a thermal camera, so it may be the software is reporting a temperature higher than the reality. I mention it because if you’re running something that’s already pushing heat limits you may want to know. It seems like the kind of situation where a fan would help, but adding a fan would mean it wouldn’t fit into a regular mSATA slot any more.
So overall I’d like to give it five stars but hold back a little because the temperature is mildly concerning.
A friend fitted a 500GB Kingston SSD to his PC, and was so happy with the result, that I decided to fit one too. My PC was a bane to use, taking at least 15 minutes to boot up properly. Noisy and ‘chattering’ all the time. With his help, a lead he had purchased, and freely available software, we cloned the old 1TB HDD to the new 1TB SSD. It took about 2.5 hours for his to clone, but mine took over three hours (possibly because it was 1TB). When it was done, EVERYTHING was as it was – except now, it is LIGHTNING FAST! Saved me buying a new PC, and it’s now a joy to use.
It has speeded things up a bit. So was worth the upgrade.
It was the reason why I bought this SDD as 252GB.
Well, I must say I’m really impressed and it surely is the most well performed upgrade I have been done. I’m saying honestly.
At some point I decided record this video to help other people to see exactly what expect for this KIGSTON Sdd.
Before I decided changing the Hd for one SDD I watched so many videos at YouTube, comparing the performances and I still was skeptics and I was wondering why not change this laptop.
As you will see, it’s true what they say. The performance is now fabulous. The value of money is a bargain comparing to the result you will reach.
I do recommend
Easy to install and works with no problems. Great for any computer.
One of the cheapest SSD with cache memory. Good value for money. Weak bundle.
Very easy to install. Plenty of free software out there to “ghost” the original drive contents over. Speed increase is extremely good, although I haven’t done a speed test yet but nonetheless, I am impressed.
When I came to clone my existing HDD to the Kingston SSD, I experienced a problem with the software. On further investigation I discovered that Acronis no longer support the software download provided by Kingston, so it would always fail no matter what I did. I downloaded Macrium Reflect free version and this resolved the issue.
The fault lies with Kingston who provide the kit, not Acronis, I purchased a Kingston product, who don’t ensure the software is up to date.
Installation was easy, and now my laptop is much quicker.
You do need to look at the on line video as there aren’t any instructions. That said, it would be helpful if there was a printed indication that the lid for the caddy slides off and the USB/SDI cable is inside. I used this on a 7 year old Acer 430T timeline that I’d upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10. Prior to installing the SSD, the HDD would run at 100% read/write for about 15 minutes on boot up whilst the Win 10 update process did its checks. With the SSD, this takes about 15 seconds! So, an old laptop I used as a backup now fully restored.
This was bought as a replacement/upgrade to my existing SSD that was showing an “error” state on life span. It arrived well packaged and all components were as illustrated. I needed to clone my existing SSD. I followed the link on the Activation Key notification, downloaded and installed the softwear. The on-line instruction manual/user guide was comprehensive and gave detailed step by step instructions not only for cloning but many other features that are useful for both experienced & inexperienced users. My old SSD still functions & will be used as a “low risk” data store mounted in the 2.5″ USB enclosure that was part of the kit and has turned out to be an added bonus.
Came quickly, easy to set up and works great. Very happy with my SSD
What an improvement. I was sceptical about purchasing and installing this SSD. However, I went ahead and how pleased I was with my decision. Physically the installation with the Kit was so easy plus the included case allows me to use the replaced HDD as an external drive. However, I was unable to use the recommended software to clone my existing OS to the SSD. For some reason, even unknown to Kingston support, after many hours of trying I couldn’t clone the OS, so I then used a free app. from the internet and that went like a breeze (hence my 4 star rating for installation). But that aside I am really pleased with the increased speed this SSD has made to my laptop making it usable for some time to come. If you have a PC with a HHD and is slow I have no hesitation in recommending this reasonably priced SSD to speed up your system.
I have had Kingston products before which were great and this SSD is no exception.
The HDD on my old Dell Dimension 9200 started to make strange noises so I cloned the HDD using Macrium Reflect on to an external drive ASAP before it crashed. I then copied it to the Kingston SSD and it has given my Dell Dimension a new lease of life.
Previously I did give this a 1 star rating as my desktop wouldn’t recognise the SSD but this was due to an error on my part so I’ve now edited this review.
Could not have been easier, simple instructions and quick install never looked back
Fantastic rapid boot time, stylish and looks smart I’m my build
Easy to install, best bang for buck upgrade for an aging laptop which now starts up in a fraction of the time.
Maybe not the fastest, but they look great and I got it at a decent price. Also to note, the drive interface is on the left side so no upside down drives in my rig.
Like some other reviewers…I took the option of using this as an external drive, so I’m probably not really putting it through its paces and it was intended. Kingston Hard Drives are a name from my past….they used to be THE hard drive brand. The improvements with SSD drives have really moved on the only drawback was the slightly limited capacity/price dilemma. No problems getting up and running….i might try transplanting it as a second drive to my geriatric PC.
This 256GB Kingston KC600 is currently selling at about seven quid less than Samsung 860 EVO which is means it’s cheaper than the cheapest Samsung I’d consider buying – Samsung make a QVO drive although not this small, but I’m not interested in the compromises involved in buying a QVO. So, the Kingston isn’t an expensive SSD and yet its performance seems quite respectable.
On the packaging, which is designed to display the KC600 in a retail environment with the SSD sitting behind a sheet of rigid transparent single-use plastic, it says that it is 15X faster than a traditional 7200 rpm spinning hard drive. I can’t say for sure whether this is an accurate speed rating, partly because its years since I last used a traditional hard drive, but in the PC that I installed it in the speed of startup and using Office applications seemed broadly equivalent to my laptop that has a Samsung 850 Pro SSD, so I’m not complaining.
Kingston is a brand I’ve purchased over a great many years, starting with their excellent RAM which I’ve used to upgrade dozens of machines, so I have come to trust them, and everything about the KC600 confirms that my trust is well placed. Of course, it should be many years, if at all, that this drive might let me down.
Anyone who knows about computers will tell you that SSDs are the thing now. If you aren’t using an SSD at least for your system drive, then you’re doing it wrong. In recent years the price point has dropped a lot, and although they still aren’t anywhere near regular hard drives in price, they have now reached a point where a reasonable sized one is well within the price range of most computer users. This Kingston one is as good as any other I’ve used, and as it is double the capacity of my Windows drive, I took the opportunity to swap them over to give myself a little more space. So far all is well, and my PC starts up and runs programs nice and quick.
This is very easy to set up, windows had it up in running in no time. It’s slotted very easily into an external drive docking station where it will serve for backup. It wins too on looks, some drives can look very utilitarian (not doubt as they are intended for internal use), but this has none of that look, in fact it is quite smart.
It was when I phoned Kingston customer service that my perception of Kingston began to change. They answered the phone quickly, and they were friendly and helpful. They were quick to offer to replace the unit, which they thought might be faulty. However I used my preferred internet search engine, and phoned a friend and discovered that I would have to initialise the SSD before I could use it. That involves a bit of what I call faffing around, as well as access to your PC’s SATA. Anyway, once initialised, I ran a couple of speed tests on the drive. One for SATA, to see how fast the drive actually is. And one for USB3, which is how I shall use it. (In a cheapo USB3 enclosure.)
The results were pretty good, I have to say.
SATA speed topped out at 498.30 MB/s write, and 538.32 MB/s read.
USB3 speed topped out at 245.68 MB/s write, and 254.98 MB/s read.
That seems pretty good to me. (See screen grabs of ATTO benchmark tests I’ve attached.)
I have no idea what the claimed 256-bit encryption is all about, but I won’t be using it knowingly.
Before this test, I hadn’t got a particularly great perception of Kingston. I didn’t think anything bad about the brand, I just thought it was the sort of brand I would skip over for a “better” brand, when pricking a product. I can’t explain why I had that perception, but in my mind it just wasn’t up there with Lexar, Sandisk, etc.
But having tested this, I find this Kingston KC600 SSD is fast, cheap and has good customer support. (Though they do assume some customer experience of SSDs.) I’m pretty impressed with it, and have revised my perception of Kingston accordingly. I’d be happy to buy another based on my experience so far, but its longevity remains to be seen.
I fit this in my 2.5 inch enclosure and it fits perfectly, it’s a 3.0 USB cable to my laptop and it works great. Super fast at transferring my data too and from my laptop. It’s super light and very well made so I think the price is set just right a 256Gig SSD.
Excellent hard drive. Easy to install and mount within Windows. Speed was excellent (on a par with my existing Sandisk SSD’s) and Windows now has it set up as an encrypted backup drive. Unbeatable value at this price point.
My only slight complaint is that it would have been nice to include a SATA cable (for internal use), as my PC had no free ones remaining, but they’re cheap enough anyway.